Telecommunications – Carrier wave repeater or relay system – Portable or mobile repeater
Reexamination Certificate
2000-02-25
2002-07-23
Vo, Nguyen T. (Department: 2682)
Telecommunications
Carrier wave repeater or relay system
Portable or mobile repeater
C455S016000, C455S517000, C455S414200
Reexamination Certificate
active
06424819
ABSTRACT:
FIELD OF INVENTION
This invention relates to radio engineering, and in particular it concerns methods of and devices for shaping code data for remote wireless transmission and reception of target information to establish contact between users carrying portable devices combined with limited range radio transceivers. The invention consists in a process of searching for desired people and required information sources, establishing contacts between people, including friendly, business and professional contacts, sexual, family-building contacts, contacts involving hobbies, interests, commerce, collecting, music, literature, arts, cinema, theater, sports, including socialization within communities of fans, mutual exchange of information, and games with one or more participants.
PRIOR STATE OF THE ART
At present, a portable pocket device known as Lovegetty, comprising a miniature radio transceiver, is in wide use. Once activated, a Lovegetty device emits a periodic radio signal of specific characteristics. Similar devices, activated and positioned at a close distance from the signal source, are capable of receiving this signal and informing its owner, by audio call, vibration call or any other means, about the signal having been received. The Lovegetty's owner, therefore, will always be able to determine if there is someone with another activated Lovegetty device nearby.
The idea of using this device is helping people seeking to expand their range of acquaintances to establish contact with one another. A Lovegetty device switched on in the pocket signals its owner's desire to make new friends or find like-thinking people. Two device owners finding themselves in close proximity can immediately become acquainted, for either of them knows that the other is ready for this.
This Lovegetty device is disadvantageous in that it is too much simple, and does not allow any additional functions to be realized or make a search for friends more determined and purposeful. A radio signal emitted by a Lovegetty device does not carry any substantial information. For this reason, even if its owner really wanted to get acquainted with some stamp collectors over 55 years of age, his Lovegetty device would also respond to a radio signal sent by a 14-year-old rock aficionado, which would not lead to anything more than waste of time on both sides.
Accordingly, the search for, and contact with, a desired user or like-thinking person is complicated, because the signal emitted by the Lovegetty does not carry any specialized profile information allowing signals to be discriminated from one another on reception and a signal carrying target profile information to be singled out. Profile is a set of standard information about a customer (user), commonly including gender, age, anthropometric characteristics, hobbies, etc. Target profile is understood to mean information similarly organized by the customer (user) about a target of his or her search. Understandably, the customer (user) profile is always specific (describing a really living particular individual), whereas the target profile always contains tolerable ranges (“age from 30 to 40, height from 1.60 to 1.85 m, and so on). The lack of function of comparing existing customer profiles against available target profiles in a certain formalized comparison algorithm indicating the coincidence rate of profiles in certain conventional units, for example, points, does not allow a user to find a desired counterpart or like-thinking person within a certain local milieu efficiently or rapidly.
Known in the art is a method of wireless transmission and reception of code information for remote search and identification between two users, wherein a portable computerized device combined with a transceiver is adapted to input, using an alphanumeric keyboard, into its memory data constituting at least one array of generated information; transform the data of each information array to a personal code; transmit at least one personal code in the form of pulsed radio signals through the propagation medium to be received by the transceiver of at least one other portable computerized device operating within the range of the transceiver of the first device; receive pulsed code radio signals emitted by the transceivers of any other portable computerized devices; compare the codes received with at least one personal code; and, if the personal code is found to coincide with at least one of the codes received in at least a majority of data, decode and output the received data corresponding to that code to perceive visually or hear the information array corresponding to that code; further, on establishing correspondence between the information array received and the information array stored in the memory, send a pulsed coincidence radio signal in the code, in which coincidence has been established, in order to establish direct contact with the user of that code, and receive a response pulsed radio signal in the personal code for the users to identify each other, confirming the establishment of direct contact (ref. French Application No. 2,615,957, GO1S 3/00, published Dec. 2, 1988).
This prior art method of transmitting and receiving code information by users for searching and identifying one another at a distance is specific in that a pulsed radio signal emitted into the propagation medium carries specific information converted into a code that can only be received by a user the memory of whose device stores information corresponding to that transmitted. Accordingly, a specific user is enabled to reduce the time needed to find another, desired user or like-thinking person by reception being denied to the code information from users whose codes do not correspond to the requirements of the particular user.
This method is disadvantageous in that it is only usable in a localized zone at a small signal transmission range and is intended for a small number of users. For contact to be established by this method, it is essential that all the users be present in the same localized area within the effective range of their radio transceivers. In this range only can a user receive signals from any other user. If the two users are at a distance exceeding the range of their radio transceivers, no contact can be established between them. This method, as a novel form of communication and contact, was developed and designed for search to be effected for people with the purpose of making their acquaintance in the conditions of so-called acquaintance clubs. This method helps simplify the formation of a database of club members and visitors, compare existing customer profiles with available target profiles manually or by computer, in order to establish the rate of coincidence and support measures for contacts to be established between customers.
Another drawback of this method is its low accuracy and considerable difficulty in determining the location of one user relative to another user because the signal received does not carry any specific information. According to this method, an audio signal only indicates that a desired user is nearby. Direct contact cannot be established at a distance. If connection is established between the users (indicated by a beep-beep signal), search is conducted by turning the frame antenna to ascertain the direction of maximum loudness of the audio signal. Search is conducted according to the level of the signal, provided always that one user seeks, while the other stands in place. If the second user moves at this time, changes in the audio signal in the first user's device would require the direction to be adjusted.
The developers of this method did not intend to go beyond club territory. It has been established, however, that many people wanting to make new friends do not rely on the facilities of such dating services and clubs for many reasons—shortage of time or money, reticence, lack of faith in a positive result, and so on. Besides, many of existing singles clubs and dating services have been set up with the only aim of promoting marriage through new fri
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Lackenbach Siegel
Nguyen Dac
Nissen J. Harold
Vo Nguyen T.
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